I was proud of Google for refusing the United States Justice Department’s request for that information. Unfortunately, it seems that Google’s done a total 180° on me… .
They’ve agreed to censor their services in China, including censoring words such as “democracy” and “human rights” from their search engine. 
Apparently the decision was “painful” but they think some access for China to Google is better than none.
I think that regardless of how they rationalise it, the decision was about business plain and simple. Google just didn’t want to lose its market, so it compromised. 
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Yes China is very close to 1984’s Big Brother in too many ways. Next thing you know, Google will loose Freedom as a word for The US once Bush crowns himself Emperor and tries to make us “The first Galactic Empire! For a safe and secure society. ” 
I‘ve never been to China myself, but I think it’s actually starting to break free from that whole Communism thing…at least we all know that THEY know they want to, but there is no right way to do it if they want to keep themselves in power at the same time…
As for Google’s decision, I don’t care if it’s Google, or Mozilla Firefox, or whatever, I think that ALL businesses are morally blind in that they will do anything to make a profit. Let’s face it: they are GREEDY.
Atleast Google isn’t funding terrorist groups like America’s oil companies.
Nir, that really doesn’t have much of anything to do with the debate at hand. :/
I think the whole Google refusing the government is crap. The Government wasn’t asking for any IDENTIFYING statistics. They only wanted to know how many searches were done for certain things, to do a study on people looking at p0rn on the internet.
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:ermmm: “Don’t Be Evil” but the greed of money or money it’s self is the root of evil which means google probilty turned evil right after they opened stock shares :ermmm:
*wates for Goolge to be target of Human Rights groups*
Is it me or is China the cloest thing to “1984” todate?
Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 4:34 PM